Despite several states experiencing millions of dollars in expenses as a result of fruit fly this year, the state and territory governments are yet to commit to a $16.9 million federal management strategy for the pest.

People in SA's Coorong call for the return of a historic rock used to mark a waterhole since the mid-1800s (but now suspected to be backyard feature adjacent a barbecue) so it can be placed in a museum.

As more than 60 GP positions remain unfilled state-wide, and regional Emergency Departments persist understaffed and overworked, one senior woman was made to wait in agony for more than five hours before her twisted bowel could be assessed and she was flown to Adelaide for emergency surgery.

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is six years in and Australian taxpayers have spent $8 billion on it so far — yet the internationally significant ecosystem at the end of the basin, the Coorong, is dying.

Australia's female farmers have been overlooked in the past but now, the Invisible Farmer research project is hoping to change that by highlighting the work of Australian women on the land.

For International Women's Day 2018, we asked women working on Australian farms to share an image giving an insight into their life and work.

These photos showcase the many and varied roles Australia's female farmers carry out — everything from training working dogs, milking cows, moving cattle or picking vegetables to fixing a diesel leak on a truck is all in a day's work for Australia's women farmers.

Roman Heinze, who tied up and sexually assaulted a Brazilian backpacker and mowed down her companion with his four-wheel drive at Salt Creek in South Australia, will spend at least 17 years in jail, with a judge noting his "violent and obsessive sexual preoccupations".